Maria Popova surfaces a Beauvoir argument worth holding onto: a real choice isn’t made once but kept in motion — “constantly in the making; it is repeated.” Beauvoir applies it to marriage, but it lands harder when you generalise it: a vow, a job, a city, a friendship are alive only as long as they’re being chosen again. The Marginalian’s reading sets the line against Beauvoir’s wider work and her partnership with Sartre, where the daily renegotiation was the whole point.